what are my hard drive raid possibilities?

[Robin]

I’m worried about the speed of your processor. Sounds mighty slow to me.

I have an old silver front G4 with an internal raid ata setup. It works fine for 10-bit with a Decklink card.

You need to buy a longer ata wire and replace the one inside your mac.

install 4 ata drives you can put a couple where your DVD drive was and two in the spare slots in your G4.

Then just format them as a raid drive. This will give you enough bandwidth

But seriously consider upgrading your mac, that’s a very old model you’re using.

[Alex_tremblay]

Robin,

Thanks for your advice. I know my G4 starts to get old, but right now it’s impossible for me to upgrade the tower.. still, the peripheral will be transferable when i will do it. What i want to do for right now, is use it in 8 bit uncompressed with MiniDV material, instead of capturing it with the firewire. And if needed, i will be able to connect a Betacam deck in it….

Do you think, with raid disks, it might be able to support 8bit uncompress?

Thanks

Alex

[John Christie]

From Blackmagic’s web site:

A dual-processor PowerMac G4/1.25 GHz, or faster, with 1 GB of RAM is required. Dual G4 processors are mandatory. Standard Definition is supported with PowerMac G4’s.

That’s for Tiger (10.4) With Panther you can get a way with a Dual 800.

Cheers

John Christie

[Robin]

In terms of hard drive speed with a raid of two internal ata drives no problem! I use the same set up for 10-bit uncompressed and it’s fine.

[Robin]

As I thought Alex, the internal Raid will work, but your processor is too slow. you need a faster machine.

[Alex_tremblay]

Will consider this… maybe i’ll wait to upgade machine before buyinit

Thanks a lot guys